Let us start with a few clear parameters. Murderous violence is always wrong and does as much damage to its perpetrators as to its victims. Freedom of expression is at the heart of the free society and must ever be defended. But with that right come responsibilities...
Twelve people were murdered yesterday (7 January) in an appalling attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. This has inflamed religious and ethnic tensions, as the killers are believed to be violent Islamist extremists. Twelve people were murdered yesterday...
Imagine police wake you. Though not suspected of any involvement in violence, you are being investigated for terrorism-related offences, on the basis of a remark by your three-year-old at a playgroup or childminder’s. Imagine police wake you. Though not suspected of...
If the government gets its way, the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is closing. If the government gets its way, the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is closing. As a fund separate from local authority income and with very different rules it has enabled disabled people to...
For as long as there has been organised government, there has been satire. From Aristophanes to Steve Bell, power has been mocked: it is a mark of the spirit of freedom. For as long as there has been organised government, there has been satire. From Aristophanes to...
